What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.